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Half-Life Alyx launch date gets confirmed

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 18, 2020, 19:27 IST

The upcoming title in Valve’s Half-Life game series, Alyx, is set to launch on March 23. Half-Life Alyx is a VR title. Developer Valve Corporation tweeted about the release date of the VR first person shooter. The game is named after its protagonist Alyx Vance.

The Steam description of the game reads: “Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.” The minimum system requirements for the game include Windows 10 operating system, with Core i5-7500 or Ryzen 5 1600 processor, 12GB RAM and GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM. Half-Life paved the way for Counter Strike, one of the most successful action shooters of all time. The first game, called Half-Life, was released in 1998 in which players had to control Gordon Freeman, a scientist caught in an alien invasion. Two expansion packs of the game, Opposing Force and Blue Shift, came out in 1999 and 2001. Half-Life was followed by Half-Life 2 with further continuation of the series with games like Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (2005), Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006) and Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007). According to Steam description of the offers on the hardware purchase, “Customers who have purchased Valve Index hardware before the game is released on Steam will have access to unique bonuses starting in early 2020”. The bonuses include: environments from Half-Life: Alyx in your SteamVR Home space, alternate gun skins for Alyx's arsenal and a special Half-Life: Alyx-themed content for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.